3) Winds of Change
(A Philosophical Proposal)
Wintertime, more than most, is a challenging time to muster-up the gumption to make changes. Sure, the New Year comes with it’s requisite resolution-making. But the natural rhythm of the season lends itself to lower energy, short and darker days, and bone-chilling overall resistance. This winter, we propose the following as consideration to fuel your winter ‘Winds of Change’.
- Winds of Change
- A Clean Breeze Blowin’ in: Green Energy
- Embracing the Cold
- Creating Your Winter Playground
- Local VS Organic by Bridget Oland
- Everyday Hero: Our Thyme Café
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10 February 2010
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Once the winter cold snap hits, the true Canadian spirit of winter emerges with skating rinks surfacing everywhere. Hit your local pond, or build a rink of your own rink with “how-to-tips” to follow. Create ‘your’ winter playground with suggestions to follow…
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10 February 2010
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“Local or Organic?” It’s one of our favorite debates and a great one to engage in on the heels of New Year’s resolution making . It’s interesting just how attached people are on both sides of the food production/ consumption issue. While supporting our local food economy is essential for community prosperity and to guarantee strong food security, ensuring the food we eat is chemical-free and grown in a safe environment is also vital for our health and families. Perhaps the ultimate would be to eat food that is ‘organic’ AND ‘locally’ grown. We’ll let Bridget Oland, Environmentalist, weigh in with some of her thoughts on the food issue…
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10 February 2010
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We haven’t chosen a CRUSISIS Everyday Hero in a while. But we came across a wonderful and sustainable initiative to which we couldn’t pass up granting the honor: Our Thyme Café.
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10 February 2010
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CRUSISIS Sustainable Living “helps folks make a big difference by making small changes every day”. If you are a coffee drinker and you are ‘not’ doing all of the things below, may the ‘winds of change’ blow you in the right direction. And let these be some of the “small changes” you make, in order to make a “big difference” every day. Be an 'Everyday Environmentalist' and commit to our sustainable coffee drinking practices to follow:
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10 February 2010
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Canada is shinning as the place to be this year for outdoor winter activity as the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And soon, around this time next year, we’ll be hosting the Canada Winter Games here in Halifax. If you haven’t been inspired to take-up any outdoor winter activities in the past, this is the year to do it. It just may be the help you need to enable you to embrace the cold!
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10 February 2010
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Perhaps you haven’t heard, but there’s a new breeze blowin’ in… a wind-powered breeze. In Atlantic Canada, there is now a new choice for clean, green energy for your home, or your business…
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10 February 2010
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3) Winds of Change
Wind has long been associated with change… change in weather, change in direction, change in paradigm…